Group Notes on What's in Pi's Name

• Religion is a mystery and Life of Pi is a mystery.
• We solve mysteries with stories.
• Pi believes we must conclude things properly; he says so on page 285.
• Pi prefers order; he makes many lists, how-to's, and stays organized.
• Stories start and end definitively like a circle, with chaos in the middle.
• Life is a battle to bring closure to mysteries, to close the circle.
• Life is an irrational mystery in which on attempts to find closure through the stories one chooses to believe, such as religion.
• Life is an irrational mystery we try to rationalize through our stories in order to feel secure